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He was wounded in action during the WWII Battle of Saipan, in the assault on Mount Tapochau, during which most of his company (" I " Company, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division ) were killed.
* September 9 – WWII: Troops of the Polish Poznan Army under the command of General Kutrzeba open the Battle of the Bzura, the largest and best organized counter-attack mounted by the Polish forces in the campaign of 1939.
* December 13 – WWII – Battle of the River Plate: The German pocket battleship, Admiral Graf Spee is trapped by cruisers HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles, and HMS Exeter after a running battle off the coast of Uruguay.
* January 4 – WWII: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
* January 29 – WWII: The Battle of Cisterna takes place.
* February 15 – WWII – Battle of Monte Cassino: The monastery atop Monte Cassino is destroyed by Allied bombing.
* February 17 – WWII: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins ; it ends in an American victory on February 22.
* February 29 – WWII – Battle of Los Negros and Operation Brewer: The Admiralty Islands are invaded by U. S. forces.
** WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino: Allied aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.
* June 6 – WWII – Battle of Normandy: Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, commences with the landing of 155, 000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.
* June 25 – WWII: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala ( the largest battle ever in the Nordic countries ) begins between Finnish and Soviet troops.
* September 15 – WWII: The Battle of Peleliu begins.
* February 19 – WWII – Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30, 000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.
* March 16 – WWII: The Battle of Iwo Jima unofficially ends, with pockets of guerrilla resistance persisting until the official conclusion of the battle.
* March 26 – WWII: The Battle of Iwo Jima officially ends, with the destruction of the remaining areas of Japansese resistance.
* April 1 – WWII – Battle of Okinawa: The U. S. 10th Army lands on Okinawa.
** WWII: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
* April 16 – WWII: Battle of Berlin begins.
* April 26 – WWII: Battle of Bautzen: The last " successful " German panzer-offensive in Bautzen ends with the city recaptured.
* May 14 – 15 – WWII – Battle of Poljana: The last battle of the War in Europe is fought at Poljana near Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia.
* June 21 – WWII: The Battle of Okinawa ends.
* January 1 – WWII: United States and Philippines troops fight the Battle of Bataan.
* January 23 – WWII: The Battle of Rabaul begins.
* January 31 – WWII: Battle of Malaya: The last organized Allied forces leave British Malaya, ending the 54-day campaign.
WWII and Okinawa
Okinawa turned out to be the only campaign that Tenth Army would take part in during WWII.
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* Librascope Development Company – Type LC-1 WWII Navy PV-1 " Balance Computor "
* 1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the WWII Axis Occupation.
* Sale, Tony, The Colossus Computer 1943 – 1996: How It Helped to Break the German Lorenz Cipher in WWII ( M .& M.
The 1945 – 46 season, when the league was played over two geographical groups due to the ravages of WWII, is not statistically considered, even if its title is fully official.
* 1920 – Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran ( d. 2001 )
* 1903 – William Grover-Williams, English-French racing driver and WWII resistance fighter ( d. 1945 )
Soon he would begin his own architectural practice with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret ( 1896 – 1967 ), a partnership that would last until the 1950s, with an interruption in the WWII years, due to Le Corbusier's ambivalent position towards the Vichy regime.
* 1913 – Werner Mölders, German WWII fighter pilot ( d. 1941 )
* 1976 – Walter Warlimont, German General WWII ( b. 1894 )
* August 8 – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and WWII spy ( d. 1998 )
* November 11 – Madeleine Damerment, French WWII heroine ( d. 1944 )
* June 16 – Harold Alexander, British WWII Field Marshal ( b. 1891 )
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* September 4 – WWII: Nepal declares war on Germany.
* September 5 – WWII: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
* September 6 – WWII: South Africa declares war on Germany.
* September 10 – WWII: Canada declares war on Germany.
* September 15 – WWII: Diverse elements of the German Wehrmacht surround Warsaw and demand its surrender.
* September 17 – WWII: The Soviet Union invades Poland and then occupies eastern Polish territories.
* September 19 – WWII: The Poznan pocket collapses, and the Germans capture, according to many sources, over 150, 000 men.
* September 22 – WWII: Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
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